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BLIS 1345
HONG KONG. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 1928.
MR. POINCARE'S
TRIUMPH
GAINS VOTE.
THE LORDS AND
DISARMAMENT
AN AIRCRAFT ·
EXHIBITION
LABOUR VOTE
AT. OLYMPIA
DEPUTIES CONFIDENCE BY LORD CUSHENDUN REPLIES TO INTERNATIONAL EVENT TO BE
129.
LARGE MAJORITY
THE RADICAL-SOCIALISTS
Paris, Yesterday,
LORD PARMOOR
GOVERNMENT VICTORY
London, Yesterday. There was a short debate in the
HELD NEXT JULY
SCHNEIDER CUP RACE
London, Yesterday..
An international Aircraft Ex-
aircraft Great Britain,
The Chamber has adopted a vote; of confidence in the reconstituted House of Lords to-day on the sub- hibition will be held at Olympia, Poincare Ministry by 380 votes to icct of disarmament. It was begun London, from July 16-27 next year. by Lord Parmoor, who was British It is being organised by the The Radical-Socialists abstained representative to the League of Society of British Aircraft Con-
Nations when the Labour, Govern- structors.. from voting.
ment was in office in 1924. Lord The last International M. Poincare, in the course of the Parmoor moved that the House re exhibition, held in dobate before the vote, affirmed gretted that the British delegation was in 1920, since when great pro- France's reparation's
formula,to the recent meeting of the League gress has been made in design as namely, acceptance of a settlement Assembly did not give effective sup well as in speeds and endurances. which would allow her to pay her port to further the policy of dia- creditors the United Kingdom and armament and all-inclusive arbitra- ly representative of all phases of The exhibition will be thorough-
aeronautica. Considerable interest | Lord Cushendun, who is Acting
is being shown by foreign aircraft | Foreign Secretary and the present and aircraft engine constructors,
the United States with an indemn-tion. + ity as reparations,
Repurations
The most important passage in British representative to the League
The wisdom of selecting next year for the exhibition is apparent when it is realised that in 1929 many import and aircraft events will take place within Great Bri tain.
M. Poincare's statement of policy of Nations, replied. He referred, as well as by foreign governments. referred to reparations. He said Lord Parmoor to statements which there now seemed no obstacle to the he had already made on this sub- appointment of experts for a round. table discussion and the Govern ment reckoned successfully on con- cluding negotiations on which the destinies of France and Europe may depend.
He added that the. Government would subordinate everything to the restoration of the country's finances and expected the Chamber to dispose of their Interpellations to-night and begin a discussion of the Budget to-morrow-Reuter.
THE **
GENERAL”.
HAD A RESTFUL DAY; "HOLDING ON"
"SUPPOSED CLAIMANTS"
CLOUDY
N. winds, strong, cloudy, is the forecast until noon to-
'morrow.
The depression has deepened and moved rapidly to N.E. of Japan. The anticyclone over China has strengthened. Strong monsoon along S.E. coast of China and over North China Sca,
For example the next Schneideri Cup Race will be held in British waters next year.-British Wireless Service,
SIR W. COCKERLINE
NOT NOW TO BE PROSECUTED
SERIOUSLY ILL
London, Yesterday. ject. He repudiated Lord Parmoor's
Mr. Winston Churchill, in the contention that if the protocol pro- House of Commona, stated that, in posed by Labour Government had view of the serious condition of been accepted everything else would Sir W. T. Cockerline's health a havé followed successfully. On the nolle prosequi was likely to be en- A bulletin regarding General contrary, he believed that if the tered by the Attorney-General when Booth's health states that the protocol had unfortunately been the case "general had a restful day and is carried, so far from helping dis- forthcoming, Newcastle assizes.
was brought up at the
London, Yesterday.
Reuter.
holding his own."-.
armament we should have had to The High Council of the Salva-increase our naval and military tion Army had been summoned to forces, in order to be in a position found guilty of defrauding the [Sir W. Cockerline was recently meet in London early in January, to make good our liabilities under
The International Headquarters that instrument. Great Britain had Income Tax department. Though he in London, in a statement on the given every possible demonstration refunded the money, he was com discussion (in the Press) regard-of its desire to go to any possible mitted for trial.
length in an attempt to reach an
THE FASCISTS
His health has been precarious for some time
He Past.]
MISSING WIVES
SIX DISAPPEAR FROM SHAMSHUIPO
ing supposed claimants to the gen-agreement on disarmament. eralship, characterise these
1 entirely repudiated any idea that "premature if not indeed absurd."
the backward position in regard -Router.
to disarmament, which he regret- ted as much as Lord Parmoor, was due in any way to acts or omis. sions of the present Government. The only point of disagreement be- tween himself and Lord Parmoor, Wag as
No fewer than six married to what were the most! effective and feasible methods for women, all living in Shamshuipo. have been reported to the police.by
GRAND COUNCIL AND THE. CONSTITUTION
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS
L
Rome. Yesterday.
REPORTS TO POLICE
a peaceful settlement of disputes, their husbands, to have absconded The senate, by 181 votes to 19, method of bilateral treaties or re the past 24 hours.
The Government preferred the from their respective homes during has passed a resolution in favour glonal treaties to those larger in-
of placing the Grand Fascist Coun-struments which were left open for
cil among the organs of the Con-signature by any state which came stitution-Reuter,
A TRAGEDY
WOMAN. SENTENCED FOR STRANGING A CHILD
MAY GO TO GUILLOTINE
Paris. For the first time in! half a century a woman
may be beheaded in France.
a
along. He submitted that. Lord Parmoor had utterly falled to sub- stantiate the charge in hla motion. The motion was defeated by thirty-three votes to ton.-British Wireless Service.
SUFI-ISM
CORN FOR BRIDAL COUPLE
A BLANKET
STOLEN FROM A CHINESE POLICE SERGEANT
When a Chinese sergeant, posses sor of a police medal, returned to his quarters at Yaumati police station yesterday from a day's leave, he found that his blanket was missing. Following investigationa, it was ascertained from a cook, that the latter had seen an odd-job carpen- She is Junka Kures, the Serbian,
ter, who was in the habit of frequent- who was sentenced to death for the
ing the station in search of work, murder of Carmen Burniaux,
leaving the Chinese quarters with a pretty child of 12 years, whom she' strangled in the Bois de Boulogne hefore an altar draped with gold
In a specially consecrated room bundle under his arm.
The carpenter in question was later after she had entered the home of curtains and with six lighted cand found in the ground floor of the the child's parents with a skeleton les and incense burning, the first Kowloon Magistracy, where he was koy and stolen $26.
wedding to be solemnised in Eng repairing a few boxes. When ap The woman maintained remark- land according to the rites of preached about the missing blanket able self-possession during her Sufi-iam took place in Brighton, he denied all knowledge of it. Later, I'trials, but when sentence of death recently.
however, he took a Chinese detective was passed she screamed, "My sont: The bride was Miss Ivy Orchard; to a pawnshop, where he had pawn- My son" and fainted.
The judge read the articles of tendent of the Brighton tramways
aged 22, whose father is superin- ed It.
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One large room, furnished
the criminal code to the effect that rolling stock, and the bridegroom After twelve months' stoppage,
or unfurnished in Kowloon, "Every person sentenced to death Mr. Mansfield Williams, the son of work is being resumed at the ahall be beheaded," and Kures was a London journalist.
Apply Duffryn, Rhondda collieries, Port
Box No. 571 c/o carried from the court in a state, of collapse.
Describing the ceremony, which Talbot, Glamorgan, and nearly
“China Mail.” took place at the house of Mr. 1,000 men will be employed. When she bad. recovered she T. W. Jarrard, Laine House, Withi was asked whether she would sign dean, an adherent of Sufl-Ism, one a notice of appeal against the sen- who was present, asid to a "Daily] tence, but refused. Her only hope Mail" reporter: ***
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passages from the six religions; Sun-ism is a combination of sind, kneeling before the altar,
roliglons - Hindu, Buddhist,
the Republie will commute her Zocongtrian, Hebrew, Christian, sentence to one of penal servitude for life, but such horror has been aroused by, her brutal murder of; the child: that it la by no means certain that the President will exercise, his powers.
Women's organisations are the most Insistent that the condemnad woman should suffer the penalty as a man.
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the bride and bridegroom faced) each other and placed rings on each other's fingers. They then raised the palms of their hands and corn was placed in them. The wedding march from Lohengrin wag played by a gramophone,
and hamfe. The six candles are symbolic of these, religions.
The wedding service was per- formed by the woman head of Saintebury-Green. She was the order in England, Murshida dressed in black and was pasist ed by another woman.
The bridegroom's father read Galliera,
Among those at the ceremony wore the mayor-elect of Brighton, Councillor H. J. Galfers, and Mrs.
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